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4 Jan 2005

Author:
AFP

Ten jailed Chinese sweatshop workers released

Ten sweatshop workers in China who were jailed for protesting unpaid salaries have been freed, with seven having their prison terms commuted to suspended sentences, a rights group said Sunday...[China Labor Watch] said it lobbied nine of the shoe manufacturer's major foreign buyers to help free the arrested workers and several wrote to Dongguan's local government and court demanding leniency...The migrant workers at two factories run by Taiwan-owned Stella International...manufactured shoes for name-brand companies like Nike, Timberland, Reebok and Clarks...